Turntable heating apparatus

Abstract: A heating apparatus of the present invention relates to a high speed oven having a turntable mechanism for heating food products by utilizing a combination of jet impingement of heated air (a jet impingement) and microwaves or either of them, the apparatus comprising a safety device and an exhaust device. This invention has the following configurations: a turntable mechanism for enabling the turntable to be preferably rotated, the turntable including openings at the central part thereof so that the heated air and microwaves can pass therethrough; a limiter mechanism for removing overload imposed on the turntable by utilizing only a mechanical operation; an apparatus provided with scarfed areas on upper and lower boards of the heating chamber so that the food products can be baked uniformly even when utilizing a jet impingement technique; a fan guard comprising a switch activation means for activating a switch for allowing a generation of the heated air, which switch is positioned at the outside of the heating chamber, only when the fan guard is fixed to the heating chamber; a heating apparatus which simplifies operations for connecting exhaust tubes upon a number of apparatuses being stacked on each other; and a turntable driving mechanism for preventing contaminants from flowing into a gap between a connecting shaft and an axis receptor.

Description: BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a turntable heating apparatus as defined in the preamble of claim 1. DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART Though attempts have been made in the past to improve the cooking oven, there still remains a lot of problems to be solved. Regarding the cooking oven, in particular one for use both in business and in homes, there has been a strong demand for a cooking apparatus which enables the time needed for cooking to be shortened and maintains and improves delicate cooking qualities of baked products, such as temperature, baking color, flavor, smell, and so on. A microwave oven utilizing inductive heating generated by a microwave can raise the temperature inside the food products in a short time, so that the time needed for cooking can be shortened. However, the cooking qualities, such as finish, baking color, flavor, and smell of the food products are not good. Accordingly, the microwave oven may, in practice, be regularly used for re-heating and thawing of the food products, but only rarely used for the final cooking stage of the baked products. To overcome the above drawback in the microwave oven, there is an oven in which inside heating and surface heating are combined, that is, while the inside of the food is heated with microwaves, its surface is heated by air convection at a high temperature and radiation of infrared rays, the oven further comprising a turntable mechanism on which the food product can be mounted, so that it can be heated more uniformly. However, the balance of the cooking finish of the food product may be lost, because the velocity needed to accomplish the inside heating with microwaves is slower than that needed to accomplish the surface heating. As a result, if a heating velocity is adjusted to the cooking finish for the surface heating, the inside of the food will be heated too much, and thus the food may be too tough and savory water and juice will be removed from the food. As a result, the time needed for cooking will not be shortened very much. On the other hand, if the heating velocity is adjusted to the time needed for raising the temperature of the inside of food product, all of the surface may not be sufficiently heated. Thus, although the cooking time can be made shorter, the quality of the food can not be maintained. To solve these above problems, Mr. Donald Paul Smith, an American, invented an apparatus in which air at a high temperature is ejected from a plurality of small holes separated from each other to impinge the air onto the upper and lower surfaces of the food product, so that the surfaces can be heated at a rate two or four times faster than a conventionally used forced convection heat transfer apparatus, it being possible for the apparatus to utilize microwaves for the inside heating of the food product (U.S. Patent No.3,884,213). The heating principle and method invented by Mr. Smith are very effective, enabling the time needed for cooking to be shortened and cooking quality to be improved. However, such an apparatus having, in practice, the above benefits has not yet appeared in the market. The reason for this is as follows. Although the above apparatus can be used as an apparatus for all baking dishes for all the dry-types of heating, such as baking, boiling, barbecuing, griddling, roasting, and fry cooking not using oil, oils and juices might be dispersed in the oven at the time of cooking depending on the kind of cooking method and the food product to be cooked. As a result, these oils and juices would be baked, carbonized and finally accumulated on wall surfaces and many portions in the oven due to the high temperature. This would cause many troubles, for example, a locking of the removable portions in the oven and a local heating resulting from a generation of microwave sparks. Accordingly, the level of the cleaning performance on the inside of the oven is very important for the above type of oven. However, even if the cleaning performance of the apparatus is improved, providing of such elements as the jet impingement mechanism, a microwave mechanism and a turntable makes the structure of the apparatus complicated, thus making the cleaning performance ineffective. Accordingly, such an apparatus as that of the present invention has been desired. In almost all of the prior ovens each comprising a turntable, a driving device is mounted on the backside of the bottom surface of the heating chamber, the axis of which device penetrates the bottom surface of the heating chamber. In such apparatuses as above constructed, since the driving device might be immersed into oil and cleaning fluid via its axis receptor, significant disadvantages, such as a sufficient cleaning operation of the apparatus utilizing water and a chemical cleaning agent is made impossible; the axis is caused to be locked; and a failure in the driving device is made to occur, would be caused. To overcome these problems, it has been desired that an apparatus as used in the present invention be provided, in which, the driving device for the turntable is not positioned at the bottom surface of the heating chamber, and which apparatus can be disassembled for ordinary cleaning and operates perfectly. A most typical turntable has an entirely flat form, and is supported by a rotational axis at the center thereof. The turntable itself has a latticed construction so that the food products can be effectively impinged on by the jet of heated air and microwaves. However, the area around the center of the turntable cannot be sufficiently heated due to the lack of the heating by the impingement of the heated air jet and the microwaves. Accordingly, there has been provided a prior art apparatus having a heating mechanism made more effective due to its improved turntable mechanism, in which apparatus, for example, a turntable has an opening at the central part thereof and is supported by four roller legs. These legs are positioned at periphery portions of the turntable. In such a structure, the problem of the previously mentioned prior art has been overcome by means of supporting the turntable at the periphery portions thereof, so that the heated air and microwaves can impinge on the area about the center of the turntable. In such a structure, however, since the rotation of the turntable is allowed by means of the engagement between the supporting rollers and the outer periphery of the turntable, a new problem might arise when the engagement is made ineffective by imposing an eccentric load on the turntable, thereby causing a failure of the engagement. Thus, another new problem, namely, the turntable cannot rotate smoothly, arises. Accordingly, it is desirable to provide a structure whose heating mechanism has been improved, without, as a result, the turntable rotation being hindered. The heating mechanism of the turntable can be improved by utilizing the jet impingement technique. In the jet impingement technique, the heating operation (heat transmission) can be performed in a shorter time and more effectively than that of the prior art, since the heated air is impinged at a high speed on the objects to be heated. Also, it takes only a short time to properly color the surfaces of such objects by baking. However, since the heat conductivity of the impinged jet of the heated air is very large, the magnitude of the heat conductivity in the parts of the food on which the jet of the heated air is impinged may vary depending on the jet speed at each of the ejector pores of the jet (correctly referred to as "Reynolds numbers"), where the greater the jet speed is, the greater the heat conductivity is. Accordingly, when the jet impingement technique is utilized, the difference between the parts of the food well heated and the parts not well heated is increased, compared with the typically used heating method. Thus, unevennees in the "baking finishing" is caused to the food product to be heated, when parts of the food are well heated and others are not well heated, and when there are differences in the velocities of the jet speeds. Thus, it is required to make the flow speed at each of the ejector pores of the jet the same and effective, so as to give a beautiful appearance to the baked food without unevenness due to the baking. In a prior method, a duct is provided in the oven, the duct having a width tapered from its upper side to lower side in a direction along the air flow, and being provided with a plurality of ejectors on one side of the upper surface and one side of the lower surface of the duct. However, such a structure makes the structure of the apparatus complicated, and thus the cleaning operation is not easy. Thus, it has been desired to provide a more simplified structure, having a smaller number of components, thus making the cleaning operation easy, and making the jet speed of the heated air uniform. The efficient utilization of space is an important subject which not effects more than just the heating apparatus. In the prior art, for instance, there is an apparatus having an exhaust tube for exhausting various gases, such as water, smoke, and so on, to the outside of the heating chamber, the gases being generated in the heating chamber at the time of cooking the food in the heating chamber of the oven. The apparatus of this type is provided with a door at the front side of the exterior cladding of the body, the food being put into the heating chamber or taken out therefrom when the door is open. The apparatus of this type is further adapted to have exhaust tubes and so on, which protrude from the interior of the heating chamber to the rear side of the back board of the exterior cladding, so the gases in the heating chamber are exhausted to the outside thereof. Thus, in the prior apparatus of this type, the exhaust tube is protruded from the back board of the exterior cladding to the rear side of the heating apparatus, the heating apparatus is limited to being put in a place separated from the backside wall of the oven by a predetermined distance when it is used. When this apparatus is used in business, the cost performance can be significantly improved, since this apparatus makes it easy to realize a system of many apparatuses put in one place rather than putting one apparatus in one place, which system can respond to successive cooking orders just-in-time. In this case, to effectively utilize space and labor, the heating apparatuses are often stacked upon one another. Therefore, there is a need to connect the exhaust tubes of the heating apparatuses together, in such a way that the exhaust tube in a lower part of the stack and one in an upper part of the stack do not overlap one another, at the outside of the heating apparatuses. This worsens the external appearance of the apparatus; makes it necessary to place a heat barrier around the exhaust tubes and to provide safeguards; and makes it necessary that an excessive space for setting the apparatuses be provided. Accordingly, it has been desired to provide an apparatus which overcomes these problems, so as to enable the apparatuses to be stacked in a narrow space in order to improve the efficient utilization of space; and which makes it easy to maintain and manage such an apparatus. Further a turntable heating apparatus according to the preamble of claim 1 is known from US-5,205,274. The apparatus disclosed in said US-5,205,274 also discloses a turntable that is driven by a motor and rotates about a substantially vertical axis. Further an impeller draws air through a central return opening and delivers air radially through upper and lower jet ejectors. However, the apparatus known from US-5,205,274 exhibits the drawback that the ability to clean said apparatus is rather limited. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION As mentioned above, as with other kinds of apparatuses, there are many problems to be solved concerning the heating apparatus. The present invention has inclusively studied the above problems to provide approachs therefor. As a solution to the above problem the present invention provides a turntable heating apparatus as defined in claim 1. Preferred embodiments of the present invention are defined in the dependent sub-claims 2-4. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The above and related objects, features and advantages of the present invention will be more fully understood by reference to the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments of the present invention when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings wherein; Fig.1 illustrates a perspective schematic illustration of the turntable heating apparatus in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. Fig.2 illustrates one example of the structure for the heating chamber of the turntable heating apparatus in Fig.1. Fig.3 is a sectional view taken along line I-I of the heating apparatus in Fig.1. Fig.4 is a sectional view taken along line II-II of the heating apparatus in Fig.1. Fig.5 is a sectional view taken along line III-III of the heating apparatus in Fig.1. Fig.6 is a sectional view taken along the line I-I of the heating apparatus in Fig.1 provided with a microwave heating device. Fig.7 is a sectional view taken along the line II-II of the heating apparatus in Fig.1, after the components within the heating chamber have been removed. Fig.8 illustrates the heating apparatus in Fig.7, comprising the microwave heating device, the bottom thereof reserving water therein. Fig.9 is a perspective view of the heating apparatus in accordance with the present invention having the exhaust pipe. Fig.10 is a partially cutaway perspective view of the heating apparatus in Fig.9 as seen from the rear side thereof. Fig.11 is a partially cutaway perspective view of the heating apparatus in Fig.9, in which three such apparatuses are stacked upon one another. Fig.12 is a partially cutaway perspective view of the heating apparatus in Fig.11, in which three such apparatuses are stacked upon one another. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS With reference to the drawings attached to the specification, embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail. Fig.1 illustrates a perspective view of the heating apparatus of the present invention. Fig.2 illustrates a configuration of the heating chamber of the heating apparatus. Each of Figs.3 to 5 illustrates a sectional view of the heating apparatus in Fig.1 taken along the lines I-I, II-II, and III-III, respectively. As is clearly shown in Fig.2, the heating chamber 1 chiefly comprises an upper board 2, a lower board 3, a back board 4, and a front board 16 of the heating chamber. The back board 4 has a spiral shape which includes air plenums on the upper side and lower side thereof. A fan 5 and a heater 6 are provided in front of the back board 4, and a fan motor 7 for providing the rotating torque to the fan 5 is provided behind the same. The heater 6 is wound into a coil shape and is set in the center of the fan 5 which is positioned at the center of a spiral chamber, so as to reduce air resistance. The heating chamber 1 is separated by a fan guard 8 into a cooking chamber 9 and a spiral chamber 10. The center part of the fan guard 8 is shaped into a bell-mouth, so as to make the resistance caused by sucking air small. Also, in order to reduce the air resistance caused by blowing out the air, an air blower has been R-bended at a front end thereof. The spiral chamber 10 is provided with air plenums on upper and lower sides thereof for transmitting the heated air produced by a combination of heat generated by the heater 6 and wind produced by rotating the fan 5. The heated air blown away from the upper and lower sides of the spiral chamber 10 passes through scarfed areas of the upper board 2 and the lower board 3, and then is guided to an upper jet plate 11 and a lower jet plate 12 on the front side of the heating chamber, and finally blown to the heating chamber 1 as a high velocity wind from a plurality of jet valves 19 provided in the upper and lower boards 11, 12. To accomplish a uniform heating of the food product 17 to be heated, a turntable 13 must be rotated at a predetermined speed during the heating process. A turntable motor 18 which is fixed to a gear box 30 by a turntable motor fixing leg 28 generates a torque for rotating the turntable 13. A turntable axis 14 is fixed to the central part of the lower jet plate 12 to rotate the turntable 13 around the axis. The turntable 13 has a generally planar shape. To rotate the turntable 13 smoothly, a turntable axis receptor 97 (as shown in Fig.3) is fixed to the central part of the turntable 13. Teeth 96 are engaged with a gear-wheel 15 for driving the turntable, so that the rotating torque is transmitted to the turntable 13, the teeth being separated into many parts of the same size and provided at the outside periphery of the turntable 13. The gear-wheel 15 is suspended by a connecting shaft 21 and a connecting shaft receptor 91. A left-twisted-spiral-miter-gear-wheel 31 is fixed to the front end of the connecting shaft 21. The left-twisted-spiral-miter-gear-wheel 31 is engaged with a right-twisted-spiral-miter-gear-wheel 32 in such a direction that the left-twisted-spiral-miter-gear-wheel 31 is perpendicular to the direction in which the connecting shaft 21 extends. The left-twisted-spiral-miter-gear-wheel 31 receives the rotating torque generated by the turntable motor 18 via the right-twisted-spiral-miter-gear-wheel 32. The food product mounted on the turntable 13 is impinged by a jet of the heated air, generated from the jet valves 19 on the upper and the lower jet plates 11, 12, and thereby rapidly heated. The jet valves 19 are preferably arranged in such a way that the entire surface of the plane on which the food product is to be mounted, can be definitely exposed to the jet of the heated air from any of the jet valves upon a rotation of the turntable 13. In connection with Figs.3 to 5, the turntable heating apparatus using a jet impingement technique of the present invention will be described below. Each of the upper and lower jet plates 11, 12 comprises a plurality of impingement pores each having a nozzle shape, so that the heated air guided via the scarfed areas of the upper and lower boards 2, 3 can be changed to an ultra-high speed jet, after passing over these areas. Now, according to the turntable heating apparatus of the present invention, one part of each of the upper and lower boards 2 and 3 is comprised of a scarfed area, a cross-sectional view of which is tapered in a direction from the rear side to the front side of the heating chamber 1. A front end of each of the scarfed areas has a -shape 27, so as to reduce the amount of air generated by the fan 5 and leaking from the clearances between the front ends of the upper and lower jet plates 11, 12 and the wall surface of the heating chamber. A rectification board 34 is provided to change the air flow generated by the fan 5 into a layer flow, so as to reduce air pressure loss. The scarfed areas provided on the upper board 2 and the lower board 3 form the heating chamber 1, and also act as passages for the heated air generated by means of the fan 5 and the heater 6. By providing such scarfed areas, the velocity of the heated air flowing from a plurality of jet impingement pores on the upper and the lower jet plates 11, 12, is made uniform. The components, such as the upper jet plate 11, lower jet plate 12, fan guard 8, turntable axis 14, turntable driving gear wheel 15 and so on, can be simply secured to and removed from the body. For example, the fan guard 8 can be easily positioned between portions of the inner wall surface of the heating chamber 1 by pushing end edges of the fan guard. The upper jet plate 11 and the lower jet plate 12 can be easily positioned between the inner wall surface of the heating chamber 1 and a wall of the fan guard 8 by pushing end edges of the plates 11 and 12. Also, the turntable 13 can be removed from the turntable axis 14. The turntable axis 14 is removable, as is the lower jet plate 12, and the turntable driving gear wheel 15 is adapted so that the axis of the connecting shaft 21 is easily fitted into the center thereof. As shown in Fig.7, upon removing all the above components, only the fan 5, heater 6, and rectification board 34 would be left in the heating chamber 1, . Accordingly cleaning performance of the heating chamber 1 can be enhanced. Referring now to Fig.8, by reserving water and detergent 52 at the recess at the scarfed area of the bottom part of the heating chamber 1 and then heating these by means of microwaves and an electric heater (not shown) provided behind the bottom surface of the heating chamber 1, so as to change the water and the detergent into vapor, contaminants attached to the wall surfaces of the heating chamber 1 can be made easy to clean away by means of the vapor power. Fig.6 illustrates a sectional view taken along a line I-I of the turntable heating apparatus in FIG.1, the apparatus additionally comprising a microwave heating device used as a heating source. A waveguide 35 is attached to the upper side of the heating chamber 1 to transmit the microwaves to the heating chamber 1, the microwaves is generated by a microwave generator 36 at the end of the heating apparatus. A cover 51 provided at the front end portion of the waveguide 35 on the side of the heating chamber 1 is made from materials having a small dielectric loss coefficient, so as to be able to prevent heated air and gas generated by the food product from entering into the waveguide. If the material of the upper jet plate 11 is made from small dielectric loss coefficient materials, an opening of the waveguide 35 can be positioned at the upper surface of the upper plate 11 of the heating chamber 1. Referring now to Fig.9 and Fig.10, the turntable heating apparatus having the exhaust tube in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described below. Fig.9 is a perspective view of the turntable heating apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention. Fig.10 is a partially cutaway perspective view of the turntable heating apparatus in Fig.9 as seen from the rear side thereof. As shown in these Figures, the heating apparatus of the present embodiment comprises a leg part 77 positioned at a lower portion of an exterior cladding 76, and a door 78 positioned at the front surface of the heating apparatus, the door 78 including a door handle 79. As is clearly shown in Fig.10, an exhaust sectional chamber 82 penetrating the heating apparatus between upper and lower sides thereof, is defined at one of the corners in the rear side of the exterior cladding 76. The sectional chamber 82 is defined by the following steps: defining a square hole in a bottom board 81; defining the leg 77 which has been bent along the square hole at the bottom board of the apparatus body; providing a sectional board 75 for a heating room to partition therefrom part of the interior of the heating room; and defining a square hole, which is similar to the above one, at the ceiling of the exterior cladding 76. The exhaust pipe 72 as used for the exhaust tube is prepared in such a way that one end thereof is connected to the heating chamber via a circular hole which is provided in an upper portion of the sectional board 75, and another end thereof is extended so as to provide an opening in the upper side of the heating apparatus by passing through the sectional chamber 82. For the reasons as mentioned below, the front end portion of the opening of the exhaust pipe 72 should preferably be extended. An insulating material 80 is wound around the exterior periphery of the exhaust pipe 72 in the sectional chamber 82. As is clearly shown in Fig.9, a portion 76A at the top of the exterior cladding 76 surrounds the square hole of the sectional chamber 82, and has a -shape, so as to prevent any contaminants on the top surface of the exterior cladding 76 from entering into the sectional chamber 82. Referring now, in particular, to Fig.11 and Fig.12, one example of how the heating apparatus having the above configuration is used will be described below. Fig.11 is a partially cut away perspective view of the heating apparatus explained in connection with Figs.9 and 10, in which three of the above apparatuses are stacked upon one another. Fig.12 is a partially cut away perspective view of the three heating apparatuses in Fig.11 stacked upon one another. As is apparent from these Figs.11 and 12, by utilizing two S-shaped exhaust connecting pipes 73 and one long liner exhaust connecting pipe 74, the exhaust pipe 72 extended through a heating room 71 of a lower heating apparatus in the stack can be guided to an upper square hole of the sectional chamber 82 of an upper heating apparatus in the stack, via the sectional chamber 82 of a middle heating apparatus in the stack and the sectional chamber 82 of the upper heating apparatus in the stack. Similar to the above, by utilizing the S-shaped exhaust connecting pipe 73 and a liner exhaust connecting pipe 83, the exhaust pipe 72 connected to the heating room 71 of the middle heating apparatus in the stack can be guided to the upper angular hole of the sectional chamber 82 of the upper heating apparatus through the sectional chamber 82 of the upper heating chamber in the stack. The exterior peripheries of these pipes 73, 74 and 83 also have the insulating material 80 wound thereon. Also, the periphery of the heating room 71 has the insulating material 80 wound thereon. Thus, in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the turntable heating apparatus of the present invention, even when these three heating apparatuses are stacked upon one another within a projecting plane of these apparatuses, an exhaust operation in the heating room 71 can still be preferably managed. Further, since an upper end portion of the exhaust pipe 72 of the heating apparatus is widened to enlarge the diameter thereof and also an upper end of the exhaust connecting pipe 73 is widened to enlarge the diameter thereof, it is possible to prevent problems such as leakage from the connecting parts between these pipes 72, 73, even when detergent is made to flow from the upper side of the apparatuses to these pipes, at the time of washing the exhaust pipe 72 and the exhaust connecting pipes 73, 74 and 83. In accordance with the present invention since some of the components within the heating chamber can be removed therefrom, improvement of cleaning performance can be achieved. Also, an automatic cleaning operation can be improved, since the water can be reserved in the recess formed by the scarfed area at the bottom of the heating chamber. In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the turntable heating apparatus comprising the exhaust tube of the present invention, it is possible to attach the apparatus near a wall surface, since exhaust tubes can be easily connected together within the heating apparatuses even when stacking the heating appratuses one upon another. Further, it is easy to clean the exhaust tube itself, and also no additional components for heat shielding are required.

Claims: A turntable heating apparatus, using a jet impingement operation comprising: generating means (5,6) for generating heated air, said generating means (5,6) being positioned in a rear side of a heating chamber (1); wall surfaces (2,3) of the heating chamber (1), said wall surfaces (2,3) also being used as a part of an air supply path for guiding the heated air from said generating means (5,6) to a front side of the heating chamber (1); a jet plate (11,12) for changing the heated air into a jet of heated air by utilizing a plurality of jet ejectors (19); a support axis (14) positioned inside said wall surfaces (2,3) of the heating chamber (1); a turntable (13), supported by said support axis (14) inside said wall surfaces (2,3) of the heating chamber (1), so that the turntable (13) is rotated around said support axis (14); a driving source (18) for generating a rotating torque; and a driving means (21,22,31,32) including a driving axis (21) for transmitting the rotating torque generated by said drive source (18) to said turntable (13); wherein at least one part of a top surface (2) and one part of a bottom surface (3) of said wall surfaces of the heating chamber (1) are each provided with a scarfed area of which a cross section becomes more tapered in a direction from the rear side to the front side of said heating chamber (1), so that said heated air can be guided along each of said scarfed area characterized in that said driving source (18) is positioned at an upper side of the heating chamber (1), in that cleaning water (52) can be stored in a recess formed by said scarfed area of the bottom surface (3) and in that at least said support axis (14), said turntable (13), said driving axis (21) and said jet plate (11,12) being removable from the heating chamber (1), whereby cleaning of the inside of the heating apparatus is improved by enabling said support axis (14), said turntable (12), said driving axis (21) and said jet plate (11,12) to be removed from the heating chamber and the cleaning water stored in said recess to be changeable into vapor by said generating means (5,6). The turntable heating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the generating means (5,6) comprises a micro-wave heating device (36) which can be used to change the cleaning water into vapor. The turntable heating apparatus according the claim 1 or 2, further comprising an exhaust dividing chamber (82) positioned at a part of an exterior cladding (76) of an apparatus body, said exhaust dividing chamber (82) penetrating the exterior cladding (76) in an up to down direction, and an exhaust tube (72) connected to a heating room (71) being extended in the upper side of the apparatus body via the exhaust dividing chamber (82). The turntable heating apparatus according to claim 3, wherein a diameter of an upper end portion of said exhaust tube (72) being enlarged so as to be connected with an exhaust connecting tube (83), said exhaust dividing chamber (82) having a size with allows at least one connecting tube (83) to pass through the chamber (82) in an up and down direction thereof.

Inventors: MATSUO HIROSHI, TSUKAMOTO HIDEKI, UEOKA AKIO, MATSUO, HIROSHI, TSUKAMOTO, HIDEKI, UEOKA, AKIO, Matsuo, Hiroshi, c/o Fujimak Corporation, Tsukamoto, Hideki, c/o Fujimak Corporation, Ueoka, Akio, c/o Fujimak Corporation
Applicants: FUJIMAK CORP, FUJIMAK CORPORATION
Application year: 1994
Main classification: F24C7
IPC codes: H05B6, F24C15, F24C7, A21B1